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The AJ’s Women in Architecture issue features interviews with Elizabeth Diller, co-founder of Diller Scofidio + Renfro and winner of this year’s Jane Drew Prize; and architectural photographer Hélène Binet, who has won the Ada Louise Huxtable Prize for women working in the wider industry. PLUS We revisit O’Donnell + Tuomey’s Saw Swee Hock LSE student centre to see how it is faring five years on; the AJ’s Working in Architecture ...

Starting over

Celebration time at St John's, the essential bar and restaurant by Smithfield market, when the group gathered to congratulate Alicia Pivaro on her riba Architecture Centre job runs into the leaving party for David Jenkins, quitting publisher Phaidon to join Sir Norman Foster. Pivaro brushes off suggestions that she is taking on a 'poisoned chalice'. 'Don't forget I was made in Manchester,' she tells me. 'What's your poison?

Whether it be photos of using some novel mode of self-propulsion, checking out the artisan produce of Martha’s Vineyard or reclining on a giant inflatable unicorn, Norman Foster ’s Instagram account is regularly inundated with adoring comments from around the globe

Writing recently in defence of new housing tsar Roger Scruton , fellow provocateur Toby Young hit out at the army of ‘offence archaeologists’ trawling the internet (mainly the philosopher’s own website ) in search of morsels of controversy

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